On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Charles Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sep 23, 2008, at 12:16 PM, ./aal wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Charles Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>>
>> >> and to clarify "Linux" refers only to the kernel, the rest of the OS >> is GNU. > > GNU only relates to the 'licensing' for profit of derivations. Not > anything to do with how or why things work the way they do. Nope, you are thinking of GPL which is the license GNU is released under > >> BSD uses a different kernel, but the rest is still GNU, > > You say that as if GNU was a 'thing' --- it's NOT it isn't any of the > programming, ideas, or anything that makes things function. [see above] > >> Just >> like OSX > The 'Implication' being that you could swap the 'GNU' portions, and > still have operable systems. [Don't work that way.] Your implication being that tool=use [not quite] You can take a car from UK and "swap" it onto a US road. That does not mean you also carry over the laws from the UK with it. BSD or GNU tools will work in Linux or BSD or OSX. A nail gun or a screw gun will hang a picture, but dont put a nail in a screw gun. >> >> Again, I am not proselytizing. I am simply trying to balance the info. >> Please do more research b4 forming your humble opinion >> >> >> Use the tool that is right for the job, not the tool that has the >> right ad campaign. > > Right on!!! ---- Linux being the one with the 'Vast Horde of Faithful > Users'. I meant that one should choose for one's own reasons > >> Nothing is an ideal swiss army knife > Agree! > > I was trying to make visible the fact that to run LINUX on a system > that was already running OSX, was in many ways ludicrous. > I agree, there is no reason to fix unbroken things. > Because most people seem to have forgotten just WHAT LINUX was > created for. [A UNIX like OS to run on the IBM PC & clones.] > And what OSX really is. [A UNIX like OS (originally for the PPC > chips, but recently also ported to the x86 family of INTEL chips.] > > Chuck D. So that logic says one should run OSX on PPC Macs and Linux on Intel Macs? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
